Yup. I thought that was a pretty well known and/or obvious thing to do.
Though my SSD is only 64GB, so I had to put my Steam install on my hard drive. I currently have something like 400GB of games installed on there. It sounds like it's about time I looked at a dedicated games SSD though:)
Having read his and my first comment, I see what you mean. My first comment was wrong. The second half of my second comment was logically accurate though. Not all smart people make money/personal gain a priority in their life. Look at Grigori Perelman for example.
Samsung and Apple had the same deadlines for submitting evidence.
Why do you think that makes things even? The prosecution could take years to prepare a case before submission if they want to. They have all the time in the world. So the defending side obviously will always have less time.
Game graphics are already "good enough" though. Good enough doesn't mean "photorealistic" in all cases. Photorealism ruins the feel of certain types of games - for example I preferred the style of GTA III to GTA IV. I think Saints Row 3 gets a nice balance between the two. Keeping slightly cartoon-ish characters while making the environment more realistic. Especially in fantasy games.
For racing games and other vehicle simulators etc we already basically have photorealism in the models and lighting. It's little details like camera shake help to make things feel more realistic, and I'd say they're more important details than getting the last few percentage points towards perfect reflections and particle physics (though those are nice too).
It's people who buy games based on graphics that are letting gaming become such a formulaic experience these days. What isn't "good enough" these days is how publishers take a good idea/series and plow the shit out of it. The guitar hero/rock band games were great fun, but they oversaturated the market. Assassin's Creed 1 was okay. 2 was spectacular, Brotherhood even better. But then they brought out Revelations which didn't add much at all or have a particularly involving story, and even AC3 felt a bit rushed IMO. The graphics in all of these games are definitely good enough to get the job done. It's the gameplay that is important.
Well actually I probably do prefer games to social interaction a lot of the time - but games based on pestering your friends to help you advance don't seem much fun to me:p I agree with your point, it's just kind of depressing. Hopefully most games these days actually have more gameplay than Mafia Wars did.
The success of Cow Clicker just shows how weird thde whole thing is. Give people a way to waste time, no matter how worthless, and they will go for it. Perhaps if he'd made "box clicker" it wouldn't have been as successful, but you never know..
It was programs like their Farmville that kept people staying on Facebook after they got bored with simple social interaction
Wut? I'm not even that sociable a person, but I block every single "game" request that gets sent to me. These games are much simpler and less interesting than social interaction.
Most of them are based around performing repetitive tasks during which you're asked to invite more friends to the game so that they can hopefully make more money (of course, FB itself is always trying to get me to add more friends right now despite the fact that any time I get more than 150 Facebook "friends" I tend to trim down the list to people that I want to stay in contact with rather than people who just added me after meeting me one time). I saw that immediately upon trying Mafia Wars, and since then I've blocked everything but Poker, Tetris and Words With Friends. I don't even play those any more either, but I still regularly post to and chat with my friends on Facebook.
Well actually if they just had a big burger and water from their preferred fast food place then they wouldn't get fat:p fries and a soda every day will get the majority of people pretty fat though.
And what I was doing wasn't trolling. It was more like "flamebait" if you want to rate it by the Slashdot moderation system. Trolling generally involves making someone thing that you believe something that you don't really believe (and I don't just mean sarcasm) rather than simply being angry. I stand by what I said.
Also, I feel like its made for the current century
Wow, way to show yourself up as a marketing tool.
for new users, its more intuitive than endlessly searching menus
What the fuck are you talking about? So searching a big panel across the top of the entire screen is easier than some relatively well named menus? I don't think so. I don't want to play Where's Wally every time I need something new.
The best solution would just be a box to type in what you want, like the one in the Windows 7 Start menu. No stupid searching through icon soup.
BTW I've been thinking about it and I guess the thing is that your average Office user only uses a couple of functions, therefore obviously a UI which brings commonly used functions to the fore will be good for those people. They only have to go searching a couple of times and then they're set.
You can have commonly used functions showing up without having to use a retarded ribbon design though. The way the XP and Windows 7 Start menus work is pretty good design. The combined run/search function in Windows 7 is even better, bordering on genius for just getting shit done when you want to get it done. The ribbon sucks.
Actually that just made me realise that if they simply had a search function for commands in the ribbon that would solve the problems with the interface. After Googling I see that MS have indeed made a plugin to do that, which is basically an admission of how much it sucks trying to find stuff in that ugly mess. Funny how moving more towards a CLI style interface makes things much easier to use (and no, I'm definitely not one of these people that thinks everything should be CLI only, but I do find it very convenient for some things).
I wasn't trolling, I was responding to a troll. I guess I shouldn't bite, but these shills are human too, and the way that they are spending their time is completely worthless to humanity.
Okay. So whenever an animal eats another animal - or a plant for that matter, that's "wrong"?
Most humans would agree that your standard is a good one to live by as far as treating other people goes. I do. Some don't. There is no objective truth to it. The natural world certainly doesn't comply to those rules. It's just something that we humans have made up because it results in a more productive society.
The law isn't really about right and wrong though. The law is the law. If you live somewhere and choose to disobey the laws, you have to take responsibility for it. Changing the law isn't necessarily saying "sorry, we were wrong", it's more like "okay, the majority of people are voting for this, so here you go". I don't consider it unjust for those people to serve out their sentences. I'd hope their sentences aren't that big either since even cops and judges probably don't consider weed that big a deal.
I think of the laws against weed and such like as fairly arbitrary things, like speed limits. Nobody's going to apologise for the laws being in place, but if society changes or technology improves to a place where the subject can be viewed in a different light (for example if everyone had self driving cars, or there was some magical new device that meant nobody could ever die from crashing), then the law is likely to change too.
I have to say that your god is kind of a dick. I mean, he creates humans to be inherently flawed, and then when the original humans behave in a flawed manner as expected, he damns them and all of their descendants to eternal punishment
This was the conclusion I came to myself actually. It made it a lot less scary to realise that it all wasn't true anyway. Even if the Christian god did exist, he would not be worth worshipping.
It's kind of funny how when you do things with other people, or when given a challenge by other people, it often feels more meaningful and purposeful than it would have if you'd just decided to do the same thing of your own accord. I think of religion a bit like that now. If you're told that life has meaning, it's a lot more comforting to just accept that than to realise that in fact it has no meaning other than what you choose to give it..
Christianity, Islam and perhaps Judaism are about the only people that believe being gay is wrong as far as I can tell. These 3 religions basically worship the same god, and he hates gay people.
What other religions are against it?
Some Christians can tell that it's not right to persecute gay people though, and try to mess with the parts of the Bible that condemn man-sex, to bring it round to their own way of thinking. Kind of admirable, but still ultimately misguided..
It wasn't wrong, it was just illegal. There's not really any such objective thing as "wrong" anyway, only what individuals or societies decide for themselves to be moral or immoral. The majority of people don't consider being gay to be immoral.
Yes, marketing droid, aren't you hilarious? The fact that you don't have Aspergers clearly makes you a better person. Do you enjoy having to traipse through post after Aspie-ridden post, trying to come up with semi-relevant comments just so that you can earn your commission this month? Does it make you feel good that you have no profitable knowledge set other than proven effective methods of lying and trying to sway the opinion of weak-minded people?
There's a difference between "learning something new" and "making an ungodly mess of a previously clean interface". In our UI design classes we were told that when users have more than 7-9 options in one section of a menu, it starts to become less efficient. The ribbon is a mess that you really have to "learn" where everything is. With good menus you don't have to learn shit, you can just find what you want by looking at the headings. The few times I've had to use the ribbon bar, things have been in weird places. I've had to Google or ask someone. Whereas with all other new interfaces I'm presented with (Android or even iOS for example) things make sense. MS don't have a fucking clue when it comes to good interface design. The only worse offenders are RIM.
Nope, just another shill. Possibly a genuinely confused shill. It's funny watching them try to copy what your average Slashdotter says, while "subtly" introducing pro-MS, pro-Apple, pro-Facebook, anti-Google type messages..
Regular unsophisticated users get along just fine because they aren't emotionally attached to things like user interfaces. It's only the whiny IT crowd who has a problem.
Regular unsophisticated users bumble along doing things by rote memory or by really bizarre roundabout routes because they don't know the most efficient way to do things. The "whiny IT crowd" like to be able to get to the features they want without dealing with bullshit like the ribbon bar (which according to TFA the designer of said bar also designed Windows 8).
The walled garden approach isn't a bad idea for clueless users. Locking things down is a good way to avoid malware. I don't see it as a downside, because there are plenty of Android devices for people who want a bit more freedom.
Toshiba are hardly a great make either. I experimented with HPs and Toshibas a few years ago, and the Satellites had really flimsy cases and I think it was Bluetooth issues in Windows. After that I just went back to Dell. They build decent quality laptops and are good at fixing stuff promptly when it does go wrong.
But I had a suspicion some people think it means something else. For example an obvious one you could guess is "motherfucking win". And if you go to UrbanDictionary, you'll see that some people do think it means that (though they've been downvoted to hell). This guys usage would indicate otherwise, as there's no way to even imagine what his face might be like after his random story. At least with yours we know it's probably a facepalm.
If you suspect it's the PNY brand, you maybe should have tried another? I've had something like 8 nVidia cards of various brands in personal machines, and supported countless more at work, and they've never had any of the problems you mention.
If the problems are related to Linux drivers, that's a software issue rather than hardware. Any card is going to die if you run at the wrong clock speeds and/or don't control the fans adequately.
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Yup. I thought that was a pretty well known and/or obvious thing to do.
Though my SSD is only 64GB, so I had to put my Steam install on my hard drive. I currently have something like 400GB of games installed on there. It sounds like it's about time I looked at a dedicated games SSD though :)
Having read his and my first comment, I see what you mean. My first comment was wrong. The second half of my second comment was logically accurate though. Not all smart people make money/personal gain a priority in their life. Look at Grigori Perelman for example.
Samsung and Apple had the same deadlines for submitting evidence.
Why do you think that makes things even? The prosecution could take years to prepare a case before submission if they want to. They have all the time in the world. So the defending side obviously will always have less time.
Actually, yes it does
The only smart people, certainly. Incorporation is the best thing I ever did for my personal finances.
Logically this means that he believes the only smart people are ones who have started a business. Some smart people do that sure, but not all.
Game graphics are already "good enough" though. Good enough doesn't mean "photorealistic" in all cases. Photorealism ruins the feel of certain types of games - for example I preferred the style of GTA III to GTA IV. I think Saints Row 3 gets a nice balance between the two. Keeping slightly cartoon-ish characters while making the environment more realistic. Especially in fantasy games.
For racing games and other vehicle simulators etc we already basically have photorealism in the models and lighting. It's little details like camera shake help to make things feel more realistic, and I'd say they're more important details than getting the last few percentage points towards perfect reflections and particle physics (though those are nice too).
It's people who buy games based on graphics that are letting gaming become such a formulaic experience these days. What isn't "good enough" these days is how publishers take a good idea/series and plow the shit out of it. The guitar hero/rock band games were great fun, but they oversaturated the market. Assassin's Creed 1 was okay. 2 was spectacular, Brotherhood even better. But then they brought out Revelations which didn't add much at all or have a particularly involving story, and even AC3 felt a bit rushed IMO. The graphics in all of these games are definitely good enough to get the job done. It's the gameplay that is important.
Sigh. Rant over..
Implying that being smart means only caring about money..? How about "no".
Well actually I probably do prefer games to social interaction a lot of the time - but games based on pestering your friends to help you advance don't seem much fun to me :p I agree with your point, it's just kind of depressing. Hopefully most games these days actually have more gameplay than Mafia Wars did.
The success of Cow Clicker just shows how weird thde whole thing is. Give people a way to waste time, no matter how worthless, and they will go for it. Perhaps if he'd made "box clicker" it wouldn't have been as successful, but you never know..
It was programs like their Farmville that kept people staying on Facebook after they got bored with simple social interaction
Wut? I'm not even that sociable a person, but I block every single "game" request that gets sent to me. These games are much simpler and less interesting than social interaction.
Most of them are based around performing repetitive tasks during which you're asked to invite more friends to the game so that they can hopefully make more money (of course, FB itself is always trying to get me to add more friends right now despite the fact that any time I get more than 150 Facebook "friends" I tend to trim down the list to people that I want to stay in contact with rather than people who just added me after meeting me one time). I saw that immediately upon trying Mafia Wars, and since then I've blocked everything but Poker, Tetris and Words With Friends. I don't even play those any more either, but I still regularly post to and chat with my friends on Facebook.
Well actually if they just had a big burger and water from their preferred fast food place then they wouldn't get fat :p fries and a soda every day will get the majority of people pretty fat though.
And what I was doing wasn't trolling. It was more like "flamebait" if you want to rate it by the Slashdot moderation system. Trolling generally involves making someone thing that you believe something that you don't really believe (and I don't just mean sarcasm) rather than simply being angry. I stand by what I said.
Also, I feel like its made for the current century
Wow, way to show yourself up as a marketing tool.
for new users, its more intuitive than endlessly searching menus
What the fuck are you talking about? So searching a big panel across the top of the entire screen is easier than some relatively well named menus? I don't think so. I don't want to play Where's Wally every time I need something new.
The best solution would just be a box to type in what you want, like the one in the Windows 7 Start menu. No stupid searching through icon soup.
BTW I've been thinking about it and I guess the thing is that your average Office user only uses a couple of functions, therefore obviously a UI which brings commonly used functions to the fore will be good for those people. They only have to go searching a couple of times and then they're set.
You can have commonly used functions showing up without having to use a retarded ribbon design though. The way the XP and Windows 7 Start menus work is pretty good design. The combined run/search function in Windows 7 is even better, bordering on genius for just getting shit done when you want to get it done. The ribbon sucks.
Actually that just made me realise that if they simply had a search function for commands in the ribbon that would solve the problems with the interface. After Googling I see that MS have indeed made a plugin to do that, which is basically an admission of how much it sucks trying to find stuff in that ugly mess. Funny how moving more towards a CLI style interface makes things much easier to use (and no, I'm definitely not one of these people that thinks everything should be CLI only, but I do find it very convenient for some things).
I wasn't trolling, I was responding to a troll. I guess I shouldn't bite, but these shills are human too, and the way that they are spending their time is completely worthless to humanity.
Okay. So whenever an animal eats another animal - or a plant for that matter, that's "wrong"?
Most humans would agree that your standard is a good one to live by as far as treating other people goes. I do. Some don't. There is no objective truth to it. The natural world certainly doesn't comply to those rules. It's just something that we humans have made up because it results in a more productive society.
The law isn't really about right and wrong though. The law is the law. If you live somewhere and choose to disobey the laws, you have to take responsibility for it. Changing the law isn't necessarily saying "sorry, we were wrong", it's more like "okay, the majority of people are voting for this, so here you go". I don't consider it unjust for those people to serve out their sentences. I'd hope their sentences aren't that big either since even cops and judges probably don't consider weed that big a deal.
I think of the laws against weed and such like as fairly arbitrary things, like speed limits. Nobody's going to apologise for the laws being in place, but if society changes or technology improves to a place where the subject can be viewed in a different light (for example if everyone had self driving cars, or there was some magical new device that meant nobody could ever die from crashing), then the law is likely to change too.
I have to say that your god is kind of a dick. I mean, he creates humans to be inherently flawed, and then when the original humans behave in a flawed manner as expected, he damns them and all of their descendants to eternal punishment
This was the conclusion I came to myself actually. It made it a lot less scary to realise that it all wasn't true anyway. Even if the Christian god did exist, he would not be worth worshipping.
It's kind of funny how when you do things with other people, or when given a challenge by other people, it often feels more meaningful and purposeful than it would have if you'd just decided to do the same thing of your own accord. I think of religion a bit like that now. If you're told that life has meaning, it's a lot more comforting to just accept that than to realise that in fact it has no meaning other than what you choose to give it..
Christianity, Islam and perhaps Judaism are about the only people that believe being gay is wrong as far as I can tell. These 3 religions basically worship the same god, and he hates gay people.
What other religions are against it?
Some Christians can tell that it's not right to persecute gay people though, and try to mess with the parts of the Bible that condemn man-sex, to bring it round to their own way of thinking. Kind of admirable, but still ultimately misguided..
It wasn't wrong, it was just illegal. There's not really any such objective thing as "wrong" anyway, only what individuals or societies decide for themselves to be moral or immoral. The majority of people don't consider being gay to be immoral.
Yes, marketing droid, aren't you hilarious? The fact that you don't have Aspergers clearly makes you a better person. Do you enjoy having to traipse through post after Aspie-ridden post, trying to come up with semi-relevant comments just so that you can earn your commission this month? Does it make you feel good that you have no profitable knowledge set other than proven effective methods of lying and trying to sway the opinion of weak-minded people?
There's a difference between "learning something new" and "making an ungodly mess of a previously clean interface". In our UI design classes we were told that when users have more than 7-9 options in one section of a menu, it starts to become less efficient. The ribbon is a mess that you really have to "learn" where everything is. With good menus you don't have to learn shit, you can just find what you want by looking at the headings. The few times I've had to use the ribbon bar, things have been in weird places. I've had to Google or ask someone. Whereas with all other new interfaces I'm presented with (Android or even iOS for example) things make sense. MS don't have a fucking clue when it comes to good interface design. The only worse offenders are RIM.
Nope, just another shill. Possibly a genuinely confused shill. It's funny watching them try to copy what your average Slashdotter says, while "subtly" introducing pro-MS, pro-Apple, pro-Facebook, anti-Google type messages..
Regular unsophisticated users get along just fine because they aren't emotionally attached to things like user interfaces. It's only the whiny IT crowd who has a problem.
Regular unsophisticated users bumble along doing things by rote memory or by really bizarre roundabout routes because they don't know the most efficient way to do things. The "whiny IT crowd" like to be able to get to the features they want without dealing with bullshit like the ribbon bar (which according to TFA the designer of said bar also designed Windows 8).
The walled garden approach isn't a bad idea for clueless users. Locking things down is a good way to avoid malware. I don't see it as a downside, because there are plenty of Android devices for people who want a bit more freedom.
Toshiba are hardly a great make either. I experimented with HPs and Toshibas a few years ago, and the Satellites had really flimsy cases and I think it was Bluetooth issues in Windows. After that I just went back to Dell. They build decent quality laptops and are good at fixing stuff promptly when it does go wrong.
But I had a suspicion some people think it means something else. For example an obvious one you could guess is "motherfucking win". And if you go to UrbanDictionary, you'll see that some people do think it means that (though they've been downvoted to hell). This guys usage would indicate otherwise, as there's no way to even imagine what his face might be like after his random story. At least with yours we know it's probably a facepalm.
If you suspect it's the PNY brand, you maybe should have tried another? I've had something like 8 nVidia cards of various brands in personal machines, and supported countless more at work, and they've never had any of the problems you mention.
If the problems are related to Linux drivers, that's a software issue rather than hardware. Any card is going to die if you run at the wrong clock speeds and/or don't control the fans adequately.